Dutch politician urges Jews to 'emigrate to US or Israel'

Former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein says no future for Orthodox Jews in Holland because of 'anti-Semitism among Dutchmen of Moroccan descent' Ynet

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12.07.10, 12:32 / Israel News

Prominent Dutch politician Frits Bolkestein sparked an uproar in the Netherlands by saying practicing Jews had “no future here, and should emigrate to the US or Israel,” French newspaper Le Monde reported Tuesday.

In the recently released book "The Decay; Jews in a Rudderless Netherlands" by Manfred Gerstenfeld, chairman of the Board of Fellows at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the former European Commissioner and ex-leader of Holland's ruling rightist VVD party is quoted as saying there is no future for Orthodox Jews in Holland because of "the anti-Semitism among Dutchmen of Moroccan descent, whose numbers keep growing." 

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